Yeah, uploads are slow with everyone trying to hit it all at the same time. The problem I'm running into is all the pending credit. sheesh I've got a lot of WU's sitting there waiting for wingmen to upload.

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Could you also please PM me those apps? :) I might be able to just avoid using them in future :D

Cheers!

You're all right - you won't be using them, I promise you. I think we're on the way to getting this sorted out now.

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If the GPU calculate CUDA and you use the GPU also for other things, it's normal that both influence each other.

It looks like the new x38g_cuda32 app use 'normal' priority, x32f_cuda30 had 'lower than normal' (if I look/ed in Windows Task-Manager).

Just an idea..
If you have probs, maybe take Fred's nice eFMer Priority tool and reduce the priority of the new CUDA app.

On my E7600 & GTX260 OC machine x38g_cuda32 run very well (what you see in my test thread).
But, the GTX260 OC is only used for crunching. No screen connected. Screen at onboard (Intel) GPU.
I have set 'high' - and see directly at starts of the CUDA WUs ~ 1 second delayed reaction of the system for other things. But that's O.K., max CUDA performance! ;-)

if I'm watching a video on youtube or dvd, playing a game or whatever, the video and sometimes entire system hangs until it starts crunching

Best to pause while you're doing other video-intensive tasks to maintain the quality of the science.

<opinion>
For the past several years the whole software industry has taken the approach of "Forget about the current user base. Lets add features to 'WOW' new people into using our software." Sadly most of them have also hired consultants from Playskool to do so.
</opinion>

Kinda made me think about the stat I heard last week in a story regarding IE9 and how it doesn't support XP, about how approx. 50% of the users on the web are using XP, and how glad Firefox was that they dropped supporting it. Not sure if that stat is true, but I've tried both Vista and 7 a bit, and at least at this point in time, I don't see a compelling reason to switch off of it. Nothing it doesn't do for me, don't need DX11, so I'm GTG. Which is pretty amazing, when you consider it, as it is now about 10 years old. Man, if you told MS back when it was released that a significant percentage of the Windows users 10 years from now would still be using XP, they would probably have laughed you out of the room. 10 years of the same OS? Preposterous!

Funny how things work out, huh? ;)

that all depends on the CPU. IIRC the newer Intel chips (i7's) run faster on the sse4.1 I may be mistaken since I don't do intel chips

From what I've been told around here, the SSSE3x app is faster than SSE4.1 app anyway :o

From what you've both been told around here, several times, by the person who wrote the application: a lot of it depends on the memory sub-system attached to the CPU.